Long Lake Yarns

Whenever I knit multiples it’s a good pattern.  Vancouver, Washington’s Rebekah Sturtevant (a/k/a Bekah.knits) has come up with a winner.  Her Moc-a-socs, in both adult and baby sizes, combine a comfy slipper with the top of a sock.  For little ones, this is footwear with staying power.  They won’t kick off easily.  For grown-ups, they are cozy [...]

Hoover, the cat.  He is one, so it always seemed best to leave him home.  Around his stuff.  Where he knows where his everything is.  And isn’t.  For more than three years now, we’ve always left him home.  He likes, and we like, his reliable cat sitter.  But we decided Hoover might like the lake house.  [...]

The woods stuffed full of snow.  The heavy wet snow that sticks to everything.  The sides of trees.  Your boots.  If you laid down to make a snow angel you would sink about ten inches.  If you made a snowball, leftover snowball would tangle in the wool of your mittens and dangle in clumps. Animal [...]

This is a section of the north branch of Thunder Bay River, just northwest of Long Lake, north of County Road 628.  But I didn’t tell you that.  It’s way too pretty a place for many people to know about.  A rickety wood plank bridge is the only way to get over the river at [...]

Sometimes I knit something just to say I’ve done it.  I once knit a Frilled-Neck Dragon for that reason.  I mean, how many people can say they’ve knitted that?  I’ve knit hippos in tutus and entire herds of ponies.  Anyway, this hat sort of captivated me.  It was designed by  Hannah Ingalls.  It is a [...]

Walking on a two-track, on state land near Sorenson Road, we came upon these Wild Turkey  tracks in the sand.  Wild Turkeys were nearly eliminated from their habitat by the early 1900’s.  Paradoxically, hunters helped save them. In 1973, the National Wild Turkey Federation was formed.  It is both a hunting organization and a conservation [...]